Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsSmead Manufacturing Company
listed as Smead · Claimed by Blackbyte · listed 3 years ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Sep 6, 2023
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- Blackbyte
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- United States
- Sector
- Manufacturing
- Listed on leak site
- Sep 6, 2023
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileSmead Manufacturing Company is a U.S.-based manufacturer of paper filing and organizational products, offering more than 5,000 SKUs including hanging folders, tabbed folders, labels, fasteners, and shelving systems sold in office supply stores nationwide. Founded in 1906 by Charles Smead, the company remains family-controlled under president and CEO Sharon Hoffman Avent. Products are sold direct-to-consumer via smead.com as well as through retail channels.
- Industry
- Office Filing & Document Organization Products Manufacturing
- Founded
- 1906
Attack summary
Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor (data_published status), confirming exfiltration of business data from a manufacturing company; while no specific regulated PII or financial data is explicitly enumerated, the confirmed publication of exfiltrated data from a company of this scale warrants a high severity rating.BlackByte claims to have attacked Smead Manufacturing and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data; no specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the post.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Company internal files
- Customer records
- Business operations data
What the group claims
Smead Manufacturing keeps its customers' offices organized. Accordingly, the company makes more than 5,000 paper filing products that are sold in office supply stores nationwide. Smead's product assortment includes folders (hanging, tabbed, and expandable), labels, fasteners, and binder and report covers. The firm also supplies open and secure shelving systems.The company was founded in 1906 by Charles Smead. After the founder's death, Smead Manufacturing was purchased by employee P. A. Hoffman, whose granddaughter, Sharon Hoffman Avent, is president and CEO today.
Sources
- Victim sitesmead.com
Source
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